The Tiny Fiat Poland Waited Years For

In the nineteen seventies, communist Poland bought a license for a tiny Italian car and promised to put the whole country on wheels. Demand was huge, supply was short, and families waited years. This is the story of the Polski Fiat one twenty-six P, better known as the Maluch. Sources: Wikipedia: Fiat 126 Wikipedia: Fabryka Samochodow Malolitrazowych Radio Krakow: 50 years since the first Fiat 126p Petrolicious: The Fiat 126p Muzeum Inzynierii Miejskiej w Krakowie: Polski Fiat 126p passenger car Image credits (resized and cropped for video): Maps: Natural Earth (public domain). --- Voiceover is produced with AI text-to-speech. Licensed photos are credited above; other photos are courtesy of their respective owners; archival film is public domain. #history #cars #RayStricklandCars